Former Football Kenya Federation (FKF) President Sam Nyamweya has waded into the current football impasse in the country and revealed how Kenya can have its FIFA suspension lifted.The country is currently serving a FIFA Suspension for government interference in football after Sports Cabinet Secretary (CS) Amina Mohamed disbanded FKF back in November on grounds of misappropriation of public funds.Oliech reacts to Kenya’s expulsion from AFCON qualifiersNyamweya shared the sentiments of a majority of Kenyans who have been left dissatisfied by the performance of the FKF Caretaker Committee whose tenure came to an end on Tuesday 10 May after which a Transition Committee was appointed to run football in the country for five weeks.The veteran football administrator noted that now that the FKFs National Executive Council (NEC) is not in place, Nick Mwendwa who is the former President cannot be reinstated so the government should open FKF Secretariat’s office and thereafter have a discussion with FIFA.“The Caretaker Committee had crooks but the Chairman is a man of integrity though he does not understand football. In the five weeks, the government and the Transition Committee should do whatever FIFA asks.Masaibu ya Kandanda ya Kenya:Harambee Stars yatemwa kutoka kundi C, ilikopangwa na Cameroon, Namibia na Burundi kuwania tiketi ya kwenda AFCON @YoshuaMakori azungumza na Sam Nyamweya (aliyekuwa rais wa FKF) #NTVSasa pic.twitter.com/ez2BD3IHmH— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) May 20, 2022 Nick’s NEC has been evicted and that is a path the government should use to tell FIFA they cannot be reinstated and the government should then open the Secretariat’s office then FIFA and the government can have a discussion because you cannot reverse their suspension without meeting their demands,” he said in an interview with NTV.Nyamweya added that the CS should present two names with CAF and FIFA providing two each to form a Normalisation Committee that will create a road map then conduct FKF elections.The former FKF head honcho however supported the move by the government to disband FKF but noted that the Caretaker Committee should not have run football for a long period and instead a Normalisation Committee should have been appointed.Sports Ministry to give way forward on Kenyan football on Thursday“The government interfered with football when football management was poor and disbandment is in the sports act and the CS has powers to do so. Under Nick Mwendwa football was in tatters and the sponsors were running away and the leagues were being poorly run so the government was right.What the government should have done was to talk to FIFA and CAF when the Caretaker Committee was appointed and they should have operated for a short period before putting in place a Normalisation Committee,” added Nyamweya.
